Homecoming --
From nowhere up to somewhere --
My own strategic retreat --
Return to Boston --
Making friends--and enemies --
My voice and manner --
Death of a soldier-poet --
The Amherst idea --
Jeanie --
Trouble in Franconia --
Transplanted: a new start --
Explorations --
The Michigan fellowship --
The long trail --
A round of readings --
The pulls on me --
Yes I suppose I am a puritan --
In the councils of the bold --
Freed from obligation --
Sickness and scatteration --
Speaking of contraries --
Helping to shape an image --
To Europe for health --
Good old folkways --
Encouraging younger poets --
A farm for myself --
Friendship means favor --
No artist should have a family --
Things in pairs ordained --
A further range --
A Harvard year --
Pride of ancestry --
Strike that blow for me --
And I the last ...